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Sunday, Apr 15, 2007

Suffixes -MINUS -Substantives ending in MINUS, &c.

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MINUS,MINI,MINA,MINAE,
UMNUS,UMNI,UMNA,UMNAE,
UNUS,UNI. Also MO,MONIS.
Substantives ending in MINUS are derived mostly from verbs, usually employed in a passive sense, 'to show something that is done', or that a person 'does to themself'.

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